A line of barefoot girls in headscarves and long patterned skirts carry large clay water jars on their backs past a brick wall. Newton & Co lantern slide no. 50 from the series "The Persians, Kurds, and Nestorians, their manners and customs", attributed by the Nelson Collection to Ernest Hoeltzer, late 19th century; published in The Living Races of Mankind (1901) as "Armenians water-carrying (Nestorians)" and by D'Allemagne (1911) as "Jeunes filles Nestoriennes faisant le métier de porteuses d'eau" (young Nestorian women working as water carriers).

Nestorian (Assyrian) girls carrying water jars

Clergy and guests gather on the steps of the Church of Saint-Ephrem des Syriens in Paris on 6 October 1929. The caption names, from left, Mgr Ignace Tappouni, General Gouraud and Mgr Khayatte; processional crosses rise behind them.

Ignace Tappouni, General Gouraud and Mgr Khayatte at Saint-Ephrem

Mgr Khayatte kneels before the altar, surrounded by clergy and altar servers, as he is raised to the rank of chorbishop at the Church of Saint-Ephrem des Syriens in Paris on 6 October 1929.

Mgr Khayatte raised to chorbishop at Saint-Ephrem, Paris

A bearded archbishop in a long cassock with a pectoral cross stands on a ship's deck holding a broad-brimmed hat. The press caption names him as Chourkaila Kury, Syrian archbishop, from a Central News photograph taken in New York in May 1920.

Syrian archbishop Chourkaila Kury aboard ship

A line of soldiers in slouch hats and shorts, rifles at the slope, drawn up in front of a Royal Air Force biplane. The agency captioned them as Assyrian troops in Iraq; they are likely men of the Assyrian Levies.

Assyrian troops in front of a British bomber in Iraq

A boy, a woman in a long dress and other residents walk along a dusty lane between mud-brick shelters with a tethered donkey in the Nestorian refugee camp in Baghdad, 1927. From Barclay Acheson's Near East Relief photographs.

Shelters in the Nestorian (Assyrian) refugee camp, Baghdad, 1927

Two men stand beside a small whitewashed mud-brick church with two windows under tall date palms, captioned as the Protestant church in the Assyrian camp, Baghdad, 1927. From Barclay Acheson's Near East Relief photographs.

Protestant church in the Assyrian camp, Baghdad, 1927

Women and girls with tins and buckets crowd around two large water tanks at the Nestorian refugee camp in Baghdad, 1927, while men stand on the tank platform. From Barclay Acheson's Near East Relief photographs.

Water supply at the Nestorian (Assyrian) refugee camp, Baghdad, 1927

A large group of boys and girls of the Assyrian Orphanage in Adana pose in front of an arched building with their teachers and leaders, among them the monk Hanna (Yuhanon) Dolabani. Photographed by Abrohom Nuro in 1921.

Students and staff of the Assyrian orphanage in Adana, 1921

Habiba Turkoghlou, described as a Chaldean lady, stands in her dark uniform and white-banded veil as matron of the military hospital. From Joseph Naayem's Shall This Nation Die? (1921).

Habiba Turkoghlou, matron of a military hospital

An inscribed stone obelisk headed "In Memoriam" stands on a stepped plinth inside a wire fence at the Baqubah camp, with tents behind. The English inscription says thousands of Christian Assyrians from the mountains of Kurdistan and Van and the districts of Salmas and Urmia lie there; a side panel in Syriac and English names Mar Paulus Shimun, Patriarch of the East.

Memorial stone at the Baqubah refugee camp, 1920

Ten members of the Assyro-Chaldean delegation to the Paris Peace Conference pose around a table, with a caption in Syriac script below. Published in the periodical Babylon in February 1921; the delegation included Metran Afrem Barsoom and Rev. Joel E. Werda.

Assyro-Chaldean delegation to the Paris Peace Conference

Map from Our Smallest Ally marking the Assyrian districts and villages between Van, Urmia and Mosul, including Qudshanis, Tiyari, Tkhuma, Jilu, Ashitha, Amadia, Alqosh, Urmi and Salmas.

Map of the country of the Assyrian Christians, 1920

Patriarch Abraham Mar Shimun

Faces, places & memories of the Assyrian people.